Up until now, the DirecTV commercials that insert new footage of celebs shilling for the satellite TV provider into their classic movies — Sigourney Weaver in “Aliens,” Naomi Watts in “King Kong,” Christopher Lloyd in “Back to the Future” — have been a little awesome. I constantly find myself asking, “how do they do that?”

But last night, that question was tweaked into, “why did they do that?” Using footage from “Tommy Boy,” David Spade is seen interacting with Chris Farley during their classic fat guy in a little coat scene. While Chris is hamming it up, David is dead-panning to the camera, “Great, I’m here with tons of fun when I could be home watching DirecTV.”

Not only is this tacky because Chris is, you know, deceased, but considering he was David’s best friend, I can’t believe the still-living (not working) comedian would stoop so low as to ride his best friend corpse all the way to the bank.